aircraft-manager incompatible with network-manager-0.7.0

[Brandon Williams]

The latest updates from the dell-mini repository installed network-manager-0.7.0. This version of network-manager is incompatible with aircraft-manager-belmont11.

Activity
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Open aircraft-manager. Uncheck WiFi and click OK.

Expected
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WiFi radio is disabled and Wireless disabled in network-manager.

Actual
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WiFi radio is disabled but Wireless is not disabled in network-manager, so network-manager constantly attempts to re-establish network connectivity.

Work-around
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Right-click on network-manager applet icon in status area and uncheck 'Enable Wireless'.

Fix for Code
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See https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+question/67614.

PS: I have previously tried to find an avenue to report bugs to the upstream maintainer, including sending direct e-mail. So far, I have been unsuccessful. I will likely upload a fixed version of the program to my PPA repository at some point in the near future so that there will at least be a working version available.

[Brandon Williams (opensource-subakutty)]

I installed aircraft-manager-12.1 from my Jaunty PPA on my standard Dell Ubuntu dell mini using 'apt-get -b source' and it works as expected. I had to pin to this version in /etc/apt/preferences, because apt wants to upgrade to belmont11 without the pin.

Here is the location of my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~opensource-subakutty/+archive/ppa

I hope these changes will be adopted upstream.

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

I recompiled the source from the PPA for hardy. Attached here.

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

The version number (12.1) in the ppa is in conflict with the official version of aircraft-manager (belmont11), as it appears to be older than the current version. I renamed the patched version belmont11.2~ppa1~hardy1. (other than that everything is the same). Binary attached.

[Brandon Williams (opensource-subakutty)]

My PPA now has a version that will install over the belmont11 version. I added an epoch to the version number in order to override "belmont", and I numbered it 12 to fit with my numbering for the Jaunty version. The lpia version is here: https://launchpad.net/~opensource-subakutty/+archive/ppa/+files/aircraft-manager_12_lpia.deb

I might eventually create a separate PPA for this package if the upstream maintainer doesn't take notice.